PLANTS COLLECTED AT BOMBAY. 
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but, in the upper, the carnivorous tooth is 
considerably larger than the tubercular; 
which latter is of the form of an oblong, 
narrow, parallelogram, with a perfectly 
smooth concave crown. All the molars 
are fanged and essentially constructed as 
in the digitigrade or normal carnivora ; but, 
owing to the nearly obsolete development 
of the cutting processes of their crowns 
they bear a character of greater resemblance 
to the molars of the typical plantigrades. 
The scissor action or true cutting process 
must in respect to these teeth be limited to 
the carnivorous ones, and even there be 
more than matched by the crushing action 
of one crown on another. ,The whole of 
the molars are longer considerably than 
broad : but they are almost as evidently 
broader than high. Heretofore it has been 
remarked that in proportion to the diminish- 
ed number of the molars is the high deve- 
lopment of their sectorial attributes : but 
in Ursitaxus we have molars less only in 
number than those of the cats proper, which 
yet are distinguished for the remarkable flat- 
^mess of their crowns.* 
• I make due allowance for detrition by use 
owing' to the age of my specimen : hut there 
still remains a remarkable flatness of crown 
in the molars, greatly exceeding that of the 
GENERAL 
CATALOGUE OF PLANTS COLLECTED 
AT BOMBAY. 
By John Graham, Esa. 
{Continued from page 449.) 
172. Datura /as^Mosa. Common. 
173. Dracaena /errca. In flower pots only. 
174. Dimocarpus In gardens, though 
not common. It bears fruit here but not equal 
to that obtained from China.* 
175. Dalbergia arborea, native name Ca- 
runj. A very pretty tree ; leaves deciduous 
in the cold weather, 
176. Sissoo. Black wood used exten- 
sively in making furniture. 
177. ,, scandens. 
178. Dolichos tuberosus. 
179. ,, cultratus. A species of Doli- 
chos is much cultivated and eaten like French 
beans, the tetragonolohus. 
• The Litchi forms the favourite fruii in 
Chinese deserts. It resembles somewhat the 
fruit of the Maple {Acer Campestre) in exter- 
nal appearance. The tree grows in a wild 
state in French and Danes’ Islands, Wham- 
poa. -Edit. 
Deeply imbedded in the cellular mem- 
brane at the outlet of .the pelvis and cen- 
trally on either side the large anus, the 
Ursitaxus has an oblong, spheroidal, hollow 
gland, which communicates, by a distinct 
tubular canal, with a round pore opening on 
the caudal margin of the anus. Each gland 
is If inch long and f wide,beinglarge enough 
to contain a walnut ; and each has its own 
canal and its own pore. These pores or 
anal orifices of the glands are about f of an 
inch apart. The ducts uniting them with 
the glands take a superior direction to open 
at the upper margin of the anus, under the 
tail ; and they exhibit at either end a mus- 
cular ring. The walls of the glands are 
about f inch thick, and purely glandular ; 
and their lining membrane lies closely in 
contact with the walls and is secretory 
throughout. But no pores can be traced 
on this lining for exuding the secretion 
which yet is contained in the cavity of the 
glands whence it passes Joy the tubes and 
anal pores into the rectum. The secretion 
found in the dead subject was dark, thick, 
and very foetid. 
seraifrugivorous Paradoxuri for example. 
Such teeth, being only sixteen in total numi>er, 
of which but two are tuberculous, constitute 
surely a singular and unique type amongst 
the Carnivora. 
SCIENCE. 
180. ,, pruriens. 
181. Dioscorea sa^ira. Common yam. 
182. ,, bulbifera. 
183. Diospyros Ebenum. 
184. Daemia reticulata, 
185. Dillenia speciosa. 
186. Diospyros montana. 
187. ,, hirsuta. 
188. Daphne Bholua. 
189. Dendrobium, ? On the Ghauts. 
190. Dombeya pa/mafa. In gardens only. 
191. Exacum /ncoZor. 
192. Evolvulus hirsutus.* 
193. Euphorbia Tirucalli. Common milk 
bush. 
194. ,, antiquorum. 
195. ,, tithymaloides. Used for edg- 
ings instead of box. 
196. ,, neriifolia. 
197. ,, hirta. A common weed. 
198. Eugenia ^am&05. Jambler, rose ap- 
ple, • 
• Is this not a variety of E. alsinoides^ m 
common plant in Chinal—EniT, 
